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In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences faced by Indian American children after exposure to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We demonstrate that there is an intimate connection—an almost exact correspondence—between James Mill’s colonial-racist discourse (Mill was the head of the British East India Company) and the current school textbook discourse. This racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces the same psychological impacts on Indian American children that racism typically causes: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon akin to racelessness, where children dissociate from the traditions and culture of their ancestors.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Talk:Aihole

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

Aihole Situated on the right bank of the river Malaprabhā in the Bijapur district of Karnataka State, this little village has carved out for itself a very important place in the archaeological map of India. A large number of Hindu temples built of stone, but now in ruins, is located in and around this village. They belong to the period A. D. 500-650 and were built by the Cālukyas of Bādāmi (A. D. 500-757). There are reasons to believe that human settlements existed here even in the 7th century B. C. By A. D. 700, it had grown into a big city, famous not only for trade and commerce but also for the settlements of learned brāhmaṇas. The old temples, about 125 in num¬ber, have been divided into 22 groups depending upon their special features. Among these, the Durgā temple, the Lāḍkhān temple, the Huccimalliguḍi and the Meguti temple are more famous and have provided a lot of information regard¬ing the history of the development of Hindu architecture. There is a temple dedicated to Brahmā too. Though all the temples are in ruins, only in the Rāmaliṅga temple, worship is continuing even today. The village has a fort and also three cave temples. A number of inscriptions belonging to different periods (A. D. 700-1200) have been recovered from the various sites of this village.

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